Morning journal and courier., 1887-08-09
News by Telegraph FROM ALL QUARTERS. THE VOLUNTEER LEADING In The Long Race To Mar
 bIehead.
 A LIGHT NORTHEAST WIND Keeps The Yachts Out All
 Night. 1
A LIGHT NORTHEAST WIND
FAv0Rs GIVEN TO ROYALTY
The New Haven Cricket
 Team Beaten.

THE VOLUNTEER FAR AHEAD
 And Sure of the Race Barring AccI-
 dents-A Pretty Sight as the SquMd-
 ron Leaves Vineyard Haven-The l. Fleet Likely to Reach Harblehead
 This Morning.
 BosToN, Aug. 9.-At 3 o'clock this after-
 noon the New York yacht squadron on it's
 way from Vineyard Haven to Marblehead
 was between Nausett Beacon and Highland light, making slow progress around Cape Cod
 against light northeast wind, it being 8
 dead beat to windward from off Nantucket for the entire distance around the Cape. At
 that hour the Volunteer was far in the lead 1 and barring accidents had the race well in l hand. Some two miles behind her was the Puritan, which was leading the Mayfower l mile and half One mile behind the May 1 flower came the Priscilla, followed by the Atlantic about the same distance astern. ! Shortly after this it appeared as if some &C., 1 cident had happened to the Puritan as she
 began to lose headway and many thought ! she had had her topmast carried away by plunging in the ground-swell off Nausett. I The Bedouin had good lead among the sec- | ond class sloops, the Sachem was leading the sehooners and those two yachts seemed sure winners in their respective classes. This was the situation at 3 o'clock when the "Ocean Gem," Colonel Charles H. Taylor's steam yacht, upon which was majority of visiting newspaper men, steamed away from the feet for Boston. It had happened that on the run of the squadron from Newport to the Vineyard the Electra, flag of Kf1 ! with correspondents, and the run to Mar blehead seemed likely to extend far into
 Monday night or Tuesday morning and there
 were no sleeping accommodations board
 the Electra excepting such as were needed
 for the regatta committee and Commodore
 Gerrys friends, it became apparent that the
 newspaper men would have to find other means of accompanying the fleet. Colonel Taylor placed all the spare accommodations on the Ocean Gem at the disposal of the reporters and all who could avsiled them
 selves of the courtesy. When at o'clock it became evident that the squadron might spend the entire night in beating around Cape Cod Colonel Taylor at the request of his newspaper guests decided to leave the
 fleet and run to Boston, thus giving the cor respondents an opportunity to reach tele- graphic facilities in season to forward story of the as far as it had been witnessed to their respective journals.
 The harbor of Vineyard Haven presented lovely marine spectacle at o'clock this morning when the yachts of the squadron began their run of no miles to Marblehead, race for which prizes had been offered by r If NayxY of 4ho steam yacht Corsair, of.s$1 ,000 for schooners and $500 each for first and second class sloops The scene had every feature needed to make it perfect. The sun shone brightly, the wind blew briskly from north north | east and there were white clouds of canvas moving with stately grace hither and thither ! like veritable clouds borne on contrary winds. On shore, notwithstanding the early hour, the bluffs were crowded with people, while carriages filled with ladies lined the drives along the beaches and as the noble fleet moved grandly away the spectators on shore waved their handkerchiefs, their only way of l showing their enthusiasm and appreciation of the beauty of the scene. As soon as day light appeared a spirit of activity was noticed among the yachts and in little while l the yachtsmen were making ready for the l great contest. Lower and topsails were hoisted so that when the preparatory signal should be given no time would be lost in getting ready. About 6:30 the Volunteer took tug and was lowed through the fleet to favorable position outside. At this | time the other yachts had begun to weigh l anchor and in a short time tEe entire fleet l began to move from the anchorage. At 6:3O the flagship Electra, Commodore Gerry, steamed out and anchored off East Chop Light. Then the yachts almost simultan- eously stood off on the port tack so as to l come about and at the starting signal l cross the line to starboard for long reach on that tack to Cross Rip. The signal to ! start was given by firing cannon on the \
 flagship at promptly seven o'clock and the 1 yachts, nearly all of which had been put to l starboard in anticipation of the signal, now came grandly toward the line. Many sailors I were heard to say that it was as fine start as was ever made by so large fleet. All of l the big sloops were handled splendidly and 1 how closely the entire fleet was together at the start will be seen by the following table | which gives the starting time of the principal vessels: Puritan 100000, Volunteer 701 100,
 Bedouin :O1:30, Mischief 7:01:45, Gitana :12, Cinderella 7:02:15 Atlantic 7:O2:28, Stranger 7:02:35, Palmer 7:03:23, Msyhower 7:03:30, Troubadour 703:40, Resolute 7:03:54,
 Priscilla 7:o4:31, Sachem 7:O4:55s Iroquois 7:O4:59, Titania 7:04:59, Vision 7:06:00, Po- cahontas 7:06:55, Norseman 7:07:05, Fannie 7:1O:3O, Phantom 100. At this time the wind was brisk from the north-northeast and all of the yachts had everything set below and aloft and everything was drawing splen- didly. The big sloops made a fine showing as they ran off in the lead of the fleet. Each
 carried mainsail, fore staysail, iib, jib topsai, working topsail and club topsail. On they went like steamers with almost a fair wind bearing them toward Cross Rip, the first mark in the long run. Within half an hour after the start Capt. Half of the Volunteer took ln his iib topsail and began pointing the big steel s1ooT1 little closer into the W1nQ. The other sloops, however, held to their course with all sail still set. The re- suit was soon apparent, for when nearing Cross Rip, the tide being very strong against idly to windward. By this the Volunteer took big advantage, not only obtaining fine windward position, but leading the Fur itan, with whom she had nip and tuck ] race fer half an hour. Now the other sloops took in jib topsails and began to follow the Volunteer to windward In this, however, the Volunteer was doing much finer work than the others and was gradually drawing away from them. When the Cross Rip light l ship was reached the Volunteer was fully ! mile ahead of the Puritan and mile to windward. About half @ mile separated the Mayfiower from the Puritan and the Priscilla | was not a less distance astern ot the May l flower with the Atlantic, making good fight with the Priscilla. The schooners had been lett in the rear | rom the StarG ana aI puOy t~' W AASA "eS | reached at 855, the sloops had all begun to
 more closely hug the wind, while the two stiokers we're still heading off to leeward to- ward Nantucket. From this point, however,
 the fleet stood of for Handkerchief Shoals lightship, the Volunteer first putting about
 on the port tack at 9:25. She passed the l Handkerchief lightship at 9:55 and then put
 about on the starboard tack again for long
 reach to Pollock's Rip lightship. At Hand
 kerchief the Puritan was still dropping astern of the Volunteer and the latter was out pointing the squadron in windward work l Just after reaching the Handkerchief
 heavy ground swell was encountered and
 all of the yachts did great
 deal of plunging. The schooner
 Gitana, Commodore Weld, of the Eastern l Yacht club, met with 8 misfortune at this A. 4<.E4 4l,nr yhal l,nd